Best Drawer Poems

This Time Last Month

A customer
Opens door
Bell lets out two rings
That smell of books
Telescopes
Globes and other things.

Travel guides
Atlases
Maps strewn everywhere
Customer
Breaks fourth wall
Speaks as if you're there:


"I got upset when I first heard 
this shop was closing down.
I don't have any reason now 
to pass this way...

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Medals in a cupboard drawer
Testament of what went before
With his enemy held no score
Boy's turned men, played at war

In blooded field or muddy trench
Gaunt eye's stared from stench
Bone and boot so weary tread
At cannons call prayers are said

From shell holes came human cries
Voices lost in...

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in most human endeavors
there are those items that just
don't quite fit in with the rest of the projects

from batteries to rubber bands
to unused takeout menus there is
only one place to find what you need

none other then the
family junk drawer
thats right folks !

the junk drawer
we really...

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My socks are on vacation
For sandals rule the day,
Since summer’s heat demands
That unclad toes be on display.

They rest in little bundles
In their drawer where they await
The flipping of the calendar
Onto a cooler date.

I can’t say that I miss them;
My feet feel better bare
But when the...

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My junk drawer
Too small for so much
Plenty of silverware
Inside it's container
Too many napkins to count
In pile and a few scattered about
Which seem to disappear 
Way too fast
A pizza cutter somewhere
Long, sharp knives
Of which most are missing
The last one used for slitting plastic
For frozen dinners
A spatula...

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Found the old New Testament
given to me in grade school,
and I always meant to read it
growing up, until I didn't,
storing it away
in a bottom dresser drawer
with some grainy pictures
I printed off the internet
when I was in high school,
leftover screws from shelves
I no longer own,
old love...

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One sweater to help keep you warm and cozy at all times 
One diary to keep notes of all your dreams and longings
One handkerchief to dry your eyes whenever you cry 
A hand held recorder so he can remember all you say to him 
A...

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I am cleaning out my junk drawer 
It's been on my list to do 
My junk is over-flowing 
It's now long past over-due 

Inside is my collection 
Of things I sometimes use 
Bits and nails and thumbtacks 
And a dozen odd-size screws 

There's a hammer...

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An eight-drawer dresser sits in an attic corner
Under the east wall dormer
It has a drawer that's quite a bother
It's the bottom drawer, a pesky drawer
That the family tries to ignore
It won’t open, it sticks and is hard to reach
It’s the drawer that’s nearest the floor

The...

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A copy of the poem " A Drawer of a Decent Soul" that she practices
A copy of the poem " A Drawer of a Decent Man" that she utulizes
A stapler to hold together things with all her power and strength
One remote control to a robot...

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One bag of honesty to myself and others at all times
Tape to fix other peoples wounds and keep them together
One box of kleenex to wipe their tears completely away
Paper to write down what needs to be done to help others 
One pen to scribble down...

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i selected a drawer, one deep enough to accommodate.
i looked over my remembrances, it was getting late.

i took them and packed them away slowly.
letting myself remember and feel wholly.

there was reluctance on my part,but it had to be done.
so much had happend... i had so...

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I’m the unopened container, pliers and blades,
I’m the beaters, light globe and egg ring.
I’m a can opener, small strainer, straw and a hammer,
I’m all that you need, everything.

If you ever need pens that don’t work,
Broken pencils, used candles, cotton thread.
Then come and see me any...

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Every family has one
     a spinster aunt with lacquered hair
tidy and quiet , mysterious and dark
     you wouldn’t cross her, you wouldn’t dare

As a child, I always feared her
     Aunt Agnes was her...

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Each morning I wake
eager to search online;
the latest news,
messages from friends,
funny videos on U-Tube,
or love notes from relatives living 
in Belleville, Casper, or Sausalito.

The top-drawer of any morning 
is listening to a familiar voice
pronounce names of notable writers,
born on said date, and list 
their quirks,...

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